Until a third party has a chance of winning, they shouldn't be in the debate. This would just be a waste, because most people don't care what he has to say. Besides, why his party? Why not the Greens, and the Communists too?
I think the two party system is broken, but this isn't the way to fix it. A debate should be between two candidates for it to be really effective. To fix this I would propose that there should be a run off with all of the candidates, and then the two candidates with the most votes should debate, and a final vote should be done to decide between the two. That would be the real way to bring third party candidates to the table. Until something like this happens, trying to pretend like the third parties have a chance is just a joke and a waste of everyone's time.
Exactally, the problem isn't too many standards. Standards are a good thing. The problem is too many proposed standards all vying to become the standard. Companies rarely work together on this sort of stuff until it becomes absolutely necessary to do so (i.e. their proposed standards fail).
I actually think it would be great to have it on this site, but I just wanted to make it clear that I wasn't critizing this site for not having something like that.
I read the article and I still don't see the point. How is a "raw" file format any better than any other lossless image format (like PNG or TIFF)?
Besides, just because Adobe isn't going to be making money off of the format directly doesn't mean that they didn't do this just to own it. I mean look at PDF. They don't make any money off the format or the viewer, but they bring in a good chunk of change on their PDF maker software
I'd like to second the oppinon of the author about the term blog. I find that term to be almost as anoying as "the information super-highway." Luckily that term mostly died out, and hopefully this one will too. To me blog sounds like something a 13 year old girl would say in an instant message (kind of like "LOL" or "OMG").
If the government owned it do you think it would be anywhere near the condition it is in now? NOPE!
Are you suggesting that the national parks would be better maintained by private individuals? These are national treasures that we all should be able to enjoy (even the "liberals").
There will always be a place for small custom solutions, because it is impossible to make a one size fits all application. I think this is particularly true in the Web Services arena.
Umm... I don't think you have any idea what you are talking about. Almost all of the things that you suggested students should be learning about are related to theory (state machines, data structures, and algorithms). Use-case analysis is related to software engineering, which is exactally what I want to see left out of a cs ciriculum (as it is only related to practical implemenations).
What good is theory when our applications are riddled with race conditions and yet people are debating how the buttons look.
HCI (Human Computer Interaction), which is where button style would be discussed, is another part of Software Engineering that has nothing to do with CS.
The funny thing is that the things you are pointing out as being worthless are exactally the sorts of things that corporations are pushing CS departments to teach to undergrads.
Don't get me wrong, software engineering has its place, but it shouldn't be forced down the throats of every CS student, because believe it or not, not every CS student is studying CS to be a software developer. Though, according to you those software engineering topics are unrelated to quality software development anyway (something I always suspected).
I'm always afraid of huge corporate donations to CS departments, because they tend to want to push the program in a certain direction. I don't think it helps anyone to have a Microsoft centric CS education, because CS shouldn't be about practical implementations, but rather theoretical concepts. I hope CMU isn't tainted by this donation.
I'm not just getting down on Microsoft either, I would feel wary about any large software company. On the other hand, it is a very nice thing for Mr. Gates to do. I'm always impressed by the really great things he and his wife choose to do with all of that money.
Would I need to worry about my alarm clock next to my desktop machine turning into a raccoon?
Don't be a crack head... The probability of that happening is just as likely regardless of you using quantum encryption. What you think just because you aren't taking advantage of living a world governed by the laws of quantum mechanics you don't have to abide by those laws? Closing your eyes doesn't really make the monsters go away either.
Well in this case that "obnoxious killjoy" would need to defy the laws of physics as we understand them (granted that perhaps we don't fully understand the laws in this case).
The first serious competion for what? The coolest new distro? That statement seems to imply that Gentoo is clearly the best around right now. I really like Gentoo, but I don't think I could dismiss all the other distros that easily.
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Until a third party has a chance of winning, they shouldn't be in the debate. This would just be a waste, because most people don't care what he has to say. Besides, why his party? Why not the Greens, and the Communists too?
I think the two party system is broken, but this isn't the way to fix it. A debate should be between two candidates for it to be really effective. To fix this I would propose that there should be a run off with all of the candidates, and then the two candidates with the most votes should debate, and a final vote should be done to decide between the two. That would be the real way to bring third party candidates to the table. Until something like this happens, trying to pretend like the third parties have a chance is just a joke and a waste of everyone's time.
Exactally, the problem isn't too many standards. Standards are a good thing. The problem is too many proposed standards all vying to become the standard. Companies rarely work together on this sort of stuff until it becomes absolutely necessary to do so (i.e. their proposed standards fail).
I know of a professor who pronounces it Beet-a.
I wonder if games will start being released with battery life predictions on the box.
I actually think it would be great to have it on this site, but I just wanted to make it clear that I wasn't critizing this site for not having something like that.
I just think there should be a similar site that lists hardware that is known to have problems with Linux. It seems just as useful to me.
I hope they found a good way to tie all those momentos down. It would be a shame if flying slide-rules created a problem during the launch.
I read the article and I still don't see the point. How is a "raw" file format any better than any other lossless image format (like PNG or TIFF)?
Besides, just because Adobe isn't going to be making money off of the format directly doesn't mean that they didn't do this just to own it. I mean look at PDF. They don't make any money off the format or the viewer, but they bring in a good chunk of change on their PDF maker software
Don't be silly, Adobe doesn't own PNG.
What about the first amendment?
What, you don't run faild? It is a Windows Server 2003 emulator.
NASA's high failure rate makes modest goals a reasonable expectation. Any number of things could have gone wrong, but luckily they didn't.
I'd like to second the oppinon of the author about the term blog. I find that term to be almost as anoying as "the information super-highway." Luckily that term mostly died out, and hopefully this one will too. To me blog sounds like something a 13 year old girl would say in an instant message (kind of like "LOL" or "OMG").
If the government owned it do you think it would be anywhere near the condition it is in now? NOPE!
Are you suggesting that the national parks would be better maintained by private individuals? These are national treasures that we all should be able to enjoy (even the "liberals").
There will always be a place for small custom solutions, because it is impossible to make a one size fits all application. I think this is particularly true in the Web Services arena.
Umm... I don't think you have any idea what you are talking about. Almost all of the things that you suggested students should be learning about are related to theory (state machines, data structures, and algorithms). Use-case analysis is related to software engineering, which is exactally what I want to see left out of a cs ciriculum (as it is only related to practical implemenations).
What good is theory when our applications are riddled with race conditions and yet people are debating how the buttons look.
HCI (Human Computer Interaction), which is where button style would be discussed, is another part of Software Engineering that has nothing to do with CS.
The funny thing is that the things you are pointing out as being worthless are exactally the sorts of things that corporations are pushing CS departments to teach to undergrads.
Don't get me wrong, software engineering has its place, but it shouldn't be forced down the throats of every CS student, because believe it or not, not every CS student is studying CS to be a software developer. Though, according to you those software engineering topics are unrelated to quality software development anyway (something I always suspected).
I don't know anything about that. I meant that it is an excellent CS school.
I'm always afraid of huge corporate donations to CS departments, because they tend to want to push the program in a certain direction. I don't think it helps anyone to have a Microsoft centric CS education, because CS shouldn't be about practical implementations, but rather theoretical concepts. I hope CMU isn't tainted by this donation.
I'm not just getting down on Microsoft either, I would feel wary about any large software company. On the other hand, it is a very nice thing for Mr. Gates to do. I'm always impressed by the really great things he and his wife choose to do with all of that money.
This is all heresy! Systems like this interfere with God's plan. If he can't even get away with a good old fashioned smiting, what has he left?
Would I need to worry about my alarm clock next to my desktop machine turning into a raccoon?
Don't be a crack head... The probability of that happening is just as likely regardless of you using quantum encryption. What you think just because you aren't taking advantage of living a world governed by the laws of quantum mechanics you don't have to abide by those laws? Closing your eyes doesn't really make the monsters go away either.
Well in this case that "obnoxious killjoy" would need to defy the laws of physics as we understand them (granted that perhaps we don't fully understand the laws in this case).
What did you just state that wasn't already stated?
You're clearly stupid then.
Well I admit that freely, but how does that answer my question?
The first serious competion for what? The coolest new distro? That statement seems to imply that Gentoo is clearly the best around right now. I really like Gentoo, but I don't think I could dismiss all the other distros that easily.
I see that the google ads were removed already. I was just kidding around, if you want to milk it, feel free.